Krebs on Security

JULY 1, 2021

“Your employees may need to verify their income and employment info when applying for things like loans, credit, or public aid. Intuit’s FAQ on the changes is here. ” In selling payroll data to Equifax, Intuit will be joining some of the world’s largest payroll providers. .

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Security and privacy advocates may have cause to worry after all: Portpass, a vaccine passport app in Canada, has been found to have been exposing the personal data of its users for an unknown length of time. ” CBC won’t say how or where the data was found but does say it was unencrypted and could be viewed in plain text. .”

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

There's a title I never expected to write! But it's exactly what it sounds like and on Thursday next week, I'll be up in front of US congress on the other side of the world testifying about the impact of data breaches. That was all great and I was happy to share my thoughts from the other side of the world.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons. Once more, a heavily protected enterprise network has been pillaged by data thieves. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2022

I visited with Erkang Zheng, founder and CEO of JupiterOne , to discuss how an emerging discipline — referred to as “cyber asset attack surface management,” or CAASM – can help with this heavy lifting. Here are my takeaways: Imposing context. How do I notify, assign and track and verify?’ ” Zheng observes.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 9, 2024

In recent years, data breaches and compliance failures have made organisations increasingly aware of the need for comprehensive cybersecurity solutions to detect and address threats. They include monitoring for potential threats and incidents, responding to confirmed breaches, and providing support for incident investigation processes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. Most importantly, the majority of the entities I’ll discuss here allow just one registrant per person/customer.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card. For a small fee, you could enter an email address and see every password ever associated with that address in a previous breach.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

How to Spot an Email Phishing Attempt at Work IdentityIQ In the modern workplace, technology is just as common as the typical morning cup of coffee. You may be wondering how bad actors get access to this data, and the answer is quite simple — impersonation.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

Satisfied, the hacker leaned back with a wry smile on his lips and thought, “ I am the admin now.” I made the initial discovery while reviewing the Proxmox authentication flow through Burp. Specifically, I noticed that during the 2FA portion of the authentication process, I was able to submit the same request multiple times.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2021

billion data—in this case, phone numbers—is not something you can easily dismiss. COMPROMISED DATA: 3.8 pic.twitter.com/fj9GnriAov — Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) July 24, 2021. It’s just scrapped data [link] — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) July 24, 2021. After all, a compromise of 3.8

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

How cybersecurity (the market) performed in 2022. The average data breach lifecycle is still too lengthy, malware variants are growing by 45%, and although ransomware attacks were lower than last year, ransom payments are rising as more companies are prepared to pay out than ever before. Until then, here are my thoughts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This post concerns itself with the other half of Wazawaka’s identities not mentioned in the first story, such as how Wazawaka also ran the Babuk ransomware affiliate program, and later became “ Orange ,” the founder of the ransomware-focused Dark Web forum known as “ RAMP.” “Hello Brian Krebs!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

Security researcher implemented a service to verify if your mobile number is included in the recent Facebook data leak. The data of Facebook users from 106 countries are available for free, over 32 million records belonging to users from the US, 11 from the UK, and 6 million users from India. ” Alosefer explained.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2022

Since the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into force in May 2018, there hasn’t yet been a way to prove compliance with it. At last, consumers and organisations can have independently verifiable assurance of an entity’s commitment to data privacy. The first relates to data governance within the applying entity (e.g.,

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This is when hackers try usernames and password combos leaked in data breaches at other companies, hoping that some users might have reused usernames and passwords across services. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. Yes, I am and no, I won't.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

October 2023’s Cyber Security Awareness Month led to a flurry of blog posts about a new attack called Quishing (QR Code phishing) and how new AI powered email gateways can potentially block these attacks. However, the same report shows that the human element accounted for 74% of data breaches. How much of a threat is Quishing?

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Webroot

JUNE 1, 2021

In a previous post, we talked a bit about what pen testing is and how to use the organizations that provide them to your benefit. So, how should an MSP respond when a customer fails a pen test? To save time and effort if this should happen to you, here are a few key elements of a good response to a pen test failure.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2022

When you’re buying things online, reducing the exposure of payment details during transactions is one way to help reduce the risk of data theft. If you can hide this payment data and switch it out for something else entirely, even better. I myself have had credit card details compromised.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 12, 2023

Furthermore, AI and machine learning algorithms can decipher the huge sets of data at an unprecedented speed and accuracy, giving businesses insights that were once out of reach. For example, adversarial attacks that subtly manipulate the input data of an AI model to make it behave abnormally, all while circumventing detection.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 26, 2018

Here's the tl;dr - someone named "Md. It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards: Should I respond? It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards: Should I respond? ??

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Yet catastrophic network breaches continue apace. Here are excerpts of our full conversation, edited for clarity and length: LW: How did Spirent come to pivot from network performance testing to security? For our customers it often comes down to having to make a decision, ‘Do I want the performance or do I want the security?’.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s a reminder of just how enriching conversations are and how incredibly interconnected the world is. I had the pleasure of engaging with some of the industry’s best and brightest, sharing ideas, insights, and what keeps us up at night. And it’s only made closer by the security experiences that impact us all. .

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You know how it freaks people out when Facebook shows them advertisements for things they have only just thought about buying? Many wonder how Facebook knows this. They say, “I haven’t searched for the item yet, but here they are showing me this advertisement.”. So, how do the platforms know what ads to serve you?

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

What Happens If You Open a Spam Email on Your Phone IdentityIQ Spam emails only become dangerous depending on how you handle them. Here are some threats found in spam emails. Unfortunately, many individuals who have methods of verifying emails can also fall victim to this malware. Why Am I Suddenly Getting Spam Emails?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Data leak discovered: 30.09.2020 Inova contacted: 01.10.2020 Amazon contacted: 06.10.2020 Turkish CERT contacted: 05.10.2020 Response received: – Server secured: 12.10.2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2021

The FBI has shared with Have I Been Pwned service 4 million email addresses collected by Emotet botnet and employed in malware campaigns. New sensitive breach: The FBI, Dutch NHTCU, German BKA and other international law enforcement agencies brought down the Emotet malware in Jan. ” reads the post published by HIBP.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Because the most recent and relevant data is likely to live in the accounts you use regularly, our next step will be to review the full scope of what’s visible from these accounts and to set more intentional boundaries on what is shared. .

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A decade ago to the day, I published a tweet launching what would surely become yet another pet project that scratched an itch, was kinda useful to a few people but other than that, would shortly fade away into the same obscurity as all the other ones I'd launched over the previous couple of decades: It's alive! "Have

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you find your name and home address posted online, how do you know where it came from? Let's assume there's no further context given, it's just your legitimate personal data and it also includes your phone number, email address. and over 400 other fields of data. If not i can upload it for you.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

The emergence of ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure such as healthcare facilities and energy organizations, as well as the rising trend of large-scale data breaches, is putting governments' capacity to defend citizens' lives, property, and well-being in jeopardy.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

They know there’s a good chance which service has suddenly experienced a breach. How would they go about this? How temporary number services work. How does this play out? At this point, you’re wondering “How do I actually receive messages to this number? I don’t own it and it’s not tied to my phone.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 7, 2021

Add to this the fact that scammers are more sophisticated, leveraging personal data previously stolen to pose as known, trusted businesses. by June 30, 2021, and in Canada by November 30, 2021, I thought it would be helpful to share info and insights, as well as tips to ensuring implementations are secure. How STIR/SHAKEN works.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 8, 2023

Additionally, 1 in 43 children were affected by a data breach from July 2021 to July 2022. Hacking Cybercriminals are always seeking ways to access large systems to obtain user data. Consider professional disposal services for secure data destruction. FAQs How Do You Check If Your Child’s Identity Has Been Stolen?

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Veracode Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Early in my career, I developed web applications. I was coding with Java using raw servlets and JSPs – very primitive by today's standards. There was no OWASP Top 10 and writing secure code was not something we paid much attention to. I specifically remember coding an open redirect years ago.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

So, how do you know if it’s happening? Phishing here is shorthand for the Pantheon of Ishings: generic, spearphishing (personalized), vishing (phone based), and SMishing (text based). The reason phishing is an issue here is that it could be a way to propagate crippling malware throughout a population. Missing Data.

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